Improvement in boiler-feeders



D. HESS. Boiler Feeder.

10.214,565. Patented April 22,1879.

P TERS. PHOTQLITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL IIESS, OF EVANSTILLE, INDIAA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOlLER-FEEDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,565, dated April 22, 1879,: application filed March 19, 1879.

To all Whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I,DAN1EL I Inss, of Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boiler-Feeders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speeiiication.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the lower half of the casing, and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan ofthe revolving cup-disk.

This invention has relation to devices for heat-ing and automatically feeding the water to steam-boilers 5 and it consists of certain iniprovements in the construction and operation ofthe same, hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters ot reference indicate like parts of the invention.

A is the upper half, and I3 the lowerhal f, of a circular box-casin g iitted together iu such a manner as will make the joints steam-tight. In this circular casing A B is contained a circular revolving disk, G, fitted to and receiving its motion from a shaft, D. The shaft D is provided at its upper end with a pulley or band wheel, lil.

There the shaft D ,enters the casing Ait is suitably packed with an ordinary stufiing-box and gland. The lower end ofthe shaft D is journaled in the bottoni of the ease B, and is perpendicularly adjustable by means ofthe set-screw a and lock-nut a.

The disk (I, ou its lower side, is provided with a series of cups, c, which, as they revolve, pass over the end of the cold -watersupply pipe Il, and are thereby filled with water, which, as the revolution continues, is discharged into the gutter or reservoir I-I. IIere it comes in contact with, and is heated by, the live steam from the boiler through the steampipe I, and in this heated condition iinds its way to the boiler through the pipe Gr.

By placing the improved feeder at such a height that the face of the disk G is on aline with the water-level of the boiler, the action of the feeder then becomes automatic, requiring no attention whatever from the attendant, for unless the water in the boiler is below the level of the face of the disk C the water will not enter the boiler, nor will the cups c empty themselves, but the disk C will continue to revolve around without discharging its contents. As soon as the water-level in the boiler falls below that ofthe feeder then the feed-water iinds its way into the boiler.

The face of the disk G is a ground or steamtight joint with the mouth ofthe feed-pipe I I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent of the United States,

1. In a combined heater an d feeder for steamboilers, the cupped wheel U, in combination with the casing B, having the heating gutter or reservoir II, substantially as aud :for the purpose set forth.

2. In a boiler-feeder, the case A B, having` induction or eduction pipes or openings, pil es or tubes F G I, the disk or wheel C, provided with cups c on its under face, and the shaft D,

the several parts constructed and relatively arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence ot two witnesses.

DANIEL IIESS.

Witnesses PETER Mami?, I. A. COLEMAN. 

